Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.